> Haint blue is a collection of pale shades of blue-green that are traditionally used to paint porch ceilings in the southern United States.
> Originally, haint blue was thought by the Gullah to ward haints, or ghosts, away from the home. The tactic was intended either to mimic the appearance of the sky, tricking the ghost into passing through, or to mimic the appearance of water, which ghosts traditionally could not cross.
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But more specifically that blue that if you're on a boat in the ocean and a storm is coming and its that steel blue, but grey silt color, the water is no longer clear but it drags you in all the same
As for green its that very specific green in a forest specifically on moss or fern's that comes right after rain first thing in morning when just enough yellow orange doesn't drown it out or mute the green but make it pop just a bit more
Mar 30, 2025
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This eye test says the boundary I use to define the difference between green and blue is between hues 174 and 168 (I took it a few times), but Iām not really sure what that tells me. I guess itās just semanticā we could all see the same color but call it something different. I donāt think we have a way to actually prove if weĀ seeĀ things the same way.
When I was a kid my friend and I had a recurring conversation about the idea that we could be perceiving the world differently and not know it. We wondered about a scenario where two people agreed on the name of every color they saw, even though their eyes were showing their brains two different shades. For them, all colors would be relatively the same (like a color wheel spun some number of degrees clockwise, with the labels staying stationary), while the real truth would be undiscoverable.
But also, maybe the language we use actually changes our understating and experience of the colors. Like Orwellās idea that having a smaller vocabulary does not just limit your ability to describe the world, but limits your understanding too. Maybe turquoise isnāt green or blue. The ancient Greeks apparently did not have a regular word for āblueā. The Iliad describes āthe wine dark sea.ā But did they simply choose to group blue in with red/purple, or did they literally not see it as blue, either due to a biological difference in our eyes, or a psychological difference produced by language restrictions.
I donāt know, whatever. The blue I see is probably my favorite color.
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specifically in the form of oil paint. its overwhelming to the pigments its mixed with and demands attention even through the layers of paint placed on top.
if a color is not an expectable answer..probably unease
Jun 1, 2025
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